Snowden

New disclosures reveal that as part of a child porn takedown, the FBI levied surveillance onto some 8,000 IPs in 120 countries, under the auspices of a single warrant. The new era of grey-hat digital surveillance is taking shape. Who will come out on top?

The Department of Justice is under fire for extremely broad warrant conditions and an unprecedented push on gathering citizen information when investigating smartphones that may have been used for criminal activity.

Yahoo has applied for a patent on a new mass-surveillance advertising method that would embed sensors and monitors into billboards, signs, and other advertisements. If you can see an ad, it can see you — at least, in Yahoo’s brave new world.

A new report claims that Yahoo didn’t just cooperate with the NSA — it built an unprecedented database to scan incoming email for keywords in real time and turns this information over to federal agencies automatically.

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